Modern attitudes on same-sex adoption

[Tom Flapwell]

The Pew Research Center (NYC) recently did a survey on various points connected to marriage and parenting. The news article that told me this focused mainly on what people say is important for a successful marriage, as compared with responses to the same survey in 1990. In particular, the factor of children has gone down and the factor of sharing household responsibilities has gone up, both quite significantly.

A sidebar mentions the more disputed issues. Fifty-seven percent oppose the legalization of same-sex marriage. (That's actually a smaller percentage than I expected.) Regarding same-sex couples raising children, 50 percent thought it was bad for society, 11 percent called it good for society, and 34 percent said it "made little difference."

...It's this last group that threw me for a loop. Maybe I'm just confused about the interpretation. Did these people think, "Straight parents, gay parents -- it's all good"? I would have counted them among the votes for "good." My initial assumption was that they were saying, "Gay parents, no parents -- what's the difference." Hopefully that attitude does not account for more than a third of those surveyed.

And only 5 percent are undecided? Man.

[Comrade K]

You could probably count me into the group that says it makes little difference. What they're saying is that they don't think it matters whether the parents are gay or straight, the child, and society, won't be negatively or positively affected. I don't think having same-sex couples with kids is somehow going to improve the rest of society. If they had been categorized with the people who said "good", That would imply that:
Homosexual parent > Heterosexual parent,
whereas I, as well as these indifferent people think:
Homosexual parent = Heterosexual parent.

[superFRO!]

I'd say it makes little difference, one of my best friends was raised by a same sex couple, and she's ok (saying normal would be a smidge too far, but honestly, are any of us normal?).

I heard a debate about this in my welsh lesson, a boy and a girl were talking about gay adoption. The boy was strongly against the idea, when the girl asked why, he said "cause they're gays, we don't need more gays, gays are gay!"

At the end of the day, how the child turns out depends mostly on the quality of the parenting it recieves, not the parent's sexuality. I have a theory that most of the people who were against it are too close-minded to actually think about it.

And that's my two cents.

[Rooster]

And that's my two cents.

"Pennies" boyo, we're not bloody yanks

[Tom Flapwell]

What, you don't use pence anymore?

[superFRO!]

Well when you're raised by a TV that's the kinda language you absorb. How stupid of me though, I should have said pennies, me being british and that...

[Gizensha]

What, you don't use pence anymore?

One pence is 100th of a pound.
One penny is a coin worth one pence.

[Lig]

Well time to put my opinion in. Well I honestly don't mind same sex adoption. I mean no study anywhere has seen an negative effects from it at all. Well at least not a credible one anyway. And besides there aren't that many people adopting anyway and adopting a child makes a diffrence in there lives. So hey I say let t hem adopt. It's better for the child then spending his childhood in one foster home after another or in some sort of orphanage or something.